Screw Ups Quotes - Page 6

• We know screwups are an essential part of making something good. That's why our goal is to screw up as fast as possible.

  Lee Unkrich

  Goal, Essentials, Pixar

  "Animating a Blockbuster: How Pixar Built 'Toy Story 3'" by Jonah Lehrer, www.wired.com. May 24, 2010.

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• You're human. You'll screw up. Denying that is crazy. Forgiving yourself has all the benefits of self-esteem without making you a narcissist that's out of touch with reality.

  David D. Burns

  Crazy, Self Esteem, Reality

  Source: time.com

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• A lot of the time you see a warning, in the subway, or in a movie theater, the main thrust of the warning will be to not panic if there is an emergency. To listen to directions. Now that's a waste. They could have given you information, but you can see their expectation that you're going to screw up.

  Amanda Ripley

  Expectations, Panic, Waste

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• Government can screw up just about everything. Given enough power and time it will screw up everything.

  Mark Thornton

  Government, Enough, Given

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• Just 'cause you love someone doesn't mean you should stick around and screw up their life.

  Dean Winchester

  Mean, Causes, Sticks

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• A manager's job is simple. For one hundred sixty-two games you try not to screw up all that smart stuff your organization did last December.

  Earl Weaver

  Jobs, Smart, Simple

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• You need to screw up to learn. You need to experience to create greatness.

  Laurie Faria Stolarz

  Greatness, Experience, Needs

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• If it’s over, then don’t let the past screw up the rest of your life.

  Nicholas Sparks

  Past, Rest Of Your Life, Screws

  Twitter post from Sep 30, 2014

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• Cable was a blessing for me. Thank god, I've done a show that's going to be iconic. So, if I screw up, it's all right because I already have something that's going to be iconic.

  Giancarlo Esposito

  Blessing, Thank God, Done

  "Giancarlo Esposito Talks REVOLUTION, Ensuring that He’s Not Repeating His BREAKING BAD Character, the Show’s Extended Hiatus, and More". Interview by Christina Radish, collider.com. March 25, 2013.

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• When we played, World Series checks meant something. Now all they do is screw up your taxes.

  Don Drysdale

  Sports, World, Checks

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• The honest man might observe... that no one gets something for nothing; that politicians go in poor and go out rich; that the Government screws up everything it touches; and that the Will to Believe is best confined to the Religious Venue, as to practice it elsewhere is just too damned expensive.

  David Mamet

  Religious, Believe, Men

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• It would be easier to screw up American Express than Coke or Gillette, but it's an immensely strong business.

  Charlie Munger

  Strong, Would Be, Coke

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• Or maybe a person is just made up of a lot of peopleMaybe we’re accumulating these new selves all the time. Hauling them in as we make choices, good and bad, as we screw up, step up, lose our minds, find our minds, fall apart, fall in love, as we grieve, grow, retreat from the world, dive into the world, as we make things, as we break things.

  Jandy Nelson

  Falling In Love, Grieving, Self

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• Don't be so damn hard on yourself. Yeah, you screwed up. You're not perfect, fine. Learn from it. But don't punish yourself. Be kind to you, even when you screw up. You'll bounce back eventually. You'll make up for it.

  Stephanie Klein

  Perfect, Be Kind, Yeah

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• But what's a writer for? The whole point is to put yourself into other lives, other heads-writers have always done that. If you screw up, so someone will tell you, that's all.

  Grace Paley

  Done, Screws, Whole

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• What we have to remember is that not everything is under our control. If people are free in any meaningful sense of the word, that means they are at liberty to foul up their lives as much as make something grand of them. That's a gamble we all take. That's the risk of liberty. Nobody wants others to screw up their lives, but each must be free to do so for themselves.

  Joel Miller

  Meaningful, People, Risk

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• All I know is that I've made some big screw-ups, and I've done some things that have done all right. I just keep trying to learn from the mistakes I've made.

  J. J. Abrams

  Mistake, Trying, Done

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Given enough time humans will screw up Wikipedia just as they have screwed up everything else, but so far it's not too bad.

  Jimmy Wales

  Enough Time, Wikipedia, Given

  "Deconstructing Wikipedia at the Berkman Center". www.cnet.com. May 15, 2008.

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• You've got to gamble every once in a while in a round of golf. I'm not afraid to screw up.

  Fuzzy Zoeller

  Golf, Not Afraid, Screws

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• No matter how much you screw up your own life by the wrong decisions that you make, it's never too late to do the right thing and change your ways and you can teach old dogs new tricks.

  Will Ferrell

  Dog, Decision, Too Late

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• One big lesson I learned from movie [making] was I don't do creative projects that I headline unless I have all the control. I can't deal with having to live with other people's screw ups, and that's just sort of the way the movie business works. The people with the money are in charge. Until I'm in charge, I don't want to play that game.

  Tucker Max

  Games, Play, People

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• Being under the microscope meant I was never given any slack. I still managed to screw up plenty in life, mind you, but in the things I really cared about - the legal work, or the stories I was telling as a writer, or the office I built in government - I wasn't left a lot of margin for error. It's kept me driven.

  Ronan Farrow

  Errors, Government, Office

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• I looked for certain attributes in a soldier. I know the modern method is to put the attributes into a computer and see what comes out. But as far as I am concerned, the computer is the worst damn instrument devised by man to screw up man-management.

  Christopher Vokes

  Men, Soldier, Computer

  "Vokes - My Story" by Chris Vokes, John Philip Maclean, (p. 74), 1985.

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• If you screw up and do something, don't lie about it; come clean.

  Pete Rose

  Lying, Clean, Don't Lie

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• Get good at being a troublemaker and saying sorry when you really screw up

  Tim Ferriss

  Sorry, Troublemaker, Screws

  "The 4-Hour Workweek: Escape 9-5, Live Anywhere, and Join the New Rich". Book by Timothy Ferriss, 2007.

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